Dr. Debasish Mohapatra has completed his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Department of Botany, Ravenshaw University. He is currently serving as Guest Faculty in the Department and teaches Botany and Biotechnology courses. His doctoral work was on the bioremediation of organophosphate insecticide (malathion and parathion) using Aspergillus niger. He has 9 research papers in national and international journals. He has also applied for one patent which is the outcome of his doctoral research. He has participated and presented his work in more than 12 conferences/ seminars / symposium. He also attended a workshop on ‘Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Program’ funded by DST, Govt. of Odisha. He was selected and successfully completed BCIL (Biotech Industrial Training Program) 2012 organised by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, New Delhi. Dr. Mohapatra was awarded “Prof. B. P. Choudhury Memorial Award” for Best Oral Presentation by Odisha Botanical Society (OBS) in 2015 at the 40^th Annual Conference of OBS organized by Fakir Mohan University, Balasore. He also got the Second Prize in Poster Presentation (Session: Applied Microbiology) during the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Plant Science Research (ETPSR-2020) held at Ravenshaw University. He is also pursuing his post-doctoral research in the field of Environmental Biotechnology and Plant Biotechnology at Ravenshaw University.